Food Guide Pyramid Grade Level: Grades K-1 Overview: Using a felt board and pictures of food, students will practice identifying food groups and using the Food Guide Pyramid. Key Concepts: eating a variety of foods for needed nutrients Time Requirements: Three 20-minute sessions Materials Needed: Copy student pages (one for each student) Reproduce an outline of the new food pyramid on felt or bulletin board Have pictures available to demonstrate foods from every food group Cut four paper triangles from four 8 ½ x 11 sheets of paper Have crayons or markers for students to use Objectives: Students will list different food groups. Students will explain what the location of food groups on the Food Guide Pyramid means. Students will identify reasons to use the Food Guide Pyramid for information about nutrition. Teaching Steps: 1. Students identify different types of foods. 2. Discuss the shape of the Food Guide Pyramid. 3. Discuss food groups depicted on the pyramid. 4. Review. Review: Review the importance of the Food Guide Pyramid and ways in which to use it. Assessment: Have students look at the Food Guide Pyramid on the felt or bulletin board. Ask them to name a food group that is in one of the larger sections of the pyramid and one food that goes in it. Have students draw their own Food Guide Pyramid using the felt board, bulletin board or online image as a model.
Teaching Steps: 1. Students identify different types of foods. . 2. Discuss the shape of the food guide pyramid. Materials: four paper triangles. Hold up a paper triangle, turning it sideways, so students can see how thin it is. Show students the other three triangles and use the four triangles together. Have students say the word pyramid. Turn the pyramid so students can see all sides, as well as look into it through the opening at the bottom. 3. Discuss food groups depicted on the pyramid. Direct students’ attention to the Food Guide Pyramid. Discuss what the sizes of the food groups indicate. 4. Review.